SOURCE: "Fathers and Daughters: Ann Radcliffe," in Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels, The University of Chicago Press, 1990, pp. 147-74.
In the following excerpt, Spacks argues that Radcliffe bases the structure of her fiction on the "moral implications of [Edmund Burke's theory of the sublime."]
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